A method includes: sending, by a first device, a first bit stream to a second device, where the first bit stream is sent over N logical lanes of a physical layer of the first device; sending, by the first device, a first trigger marker group to the second device, where the first trigger marker group is used to indicate that the sending of the first bit stream ends; and sending, by the first device, a second bit stream to the second device in response to the sending of the first trigger marker group, where the second bit stream is sent over P logical lanes of the physical layer of the first device, and both N and P are positive integers.
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3. The method according to claim 2, wherein each ith trigger marker comprises information for identifying the respective ith logical lane.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first bit stream is encoded by using a first forward error correction (FEC) encoding scheme, the second bit stream is encoded by using a second FEC encoding scheme, and wherein an error correction capability of the second FEC encoding scheme is different from an error correction capability of the first FEC encoding scheme.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of the first bit stream or the second bit stream is encoded using forward error correction (FEC).
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first bit stream comprises an anchor code block, and the anchor code block indicates a time at which sending the first bit stream ends.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first trigger marker group is an alignment marker (AM) group.
11. The communications device according to claim 10, wherein each ith trigger marker comprises information for identifying the respective ith logical lane.
12. The communications device according to claim 9, wherein the first bit stream is encoded using a first forward error correction (FEC) encoding scheme and the second bit stream is encoded using a second FEC encoding scheme, wherein an error correction capability of the second FEC encoding scheme is different from an error correction capability of the first FEC encoding scheme.
13. The communications device according to claim 9, wherein one of the first bit stream or the second bit stream is encoded using forward error correction (FEC).
14. The communications device according to claim 9, wherein the first bit stream comprises an anchor code block, and the anchor code block indicates a time at which sending the first bit stream ends.
15. The communications device according to claim 14, wherein the first trigger marker group is an alignment marker (AM) group.
19. The communications device according to claim 18, wherein each ith trigger marker comprises information for identifying the respective ith logical lane.
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